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If you've ever been to an amusement park before, then you've probably ridden on a roller coaster.
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Roller coasters are fun and a good way to experience
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what feels like a near-death experience without actually having to die in the process.
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But one man named Julijonas Urbonas decided that he wanted to change all of that.
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Eight years ago in 2010, he designed this monstrosity
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and affectionately named it the Euthanasia Coaster.
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If you've ever played a Rollercoaster Tycoon game and designed a ride to fail and blow up on purpose, then this is kind of like the real-life version of that.
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To start things off the train on the ride is capable of loading 24 passengers on board.
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Once that's been done the train would ascend a steep lift to a crazy height of 510 meters in the sky.
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To put that into perspective,
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the tallest rollercoaster ever built so far is the King Da Ka in Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey and, that's only 139 meters tall.
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The Euthanasia Coaster would be well over
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three times taller than even that, which is just a little bit shorter than the One World Trade Center in New York City,
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the tallest building in the United States.
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It would take the train going up the lift a full two minutes to reach the top, which would give the riders time to contemplate their decision of getting on the thing.
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Seeing the surface and buildings below get smaller and smaller would undoubtedly be a terrifying experience.
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And knowing that death would follow upon dropping down the other side would increase the tension felt by many.
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Once at the top, the train would stop and allow anybody who wanted to get off the option to leave and descend back down to the surface safely.
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Everybody remaining on the train would have to manually push a button committing to the ride.
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And then the rest of the experience would begin.
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The train would plummet over the side of the hill hurtling down at a speed of 360 km/h, close to its terminal velocity.
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After the 500 meter initial drop, the track flattens out and begins the first of seven inversions in a row,
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and this is the deadly part.
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It would take 60 seconds for the train to go through all seven of these inversions and each inversion gradually gets a smaller and smaller
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diameter in order to maintain 10 Gs of force to all the passengers during the entire 60-second experience.
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To understand just how much of a force that really is, here's a little bit of further context:
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If you're standing on the surface at sea level,
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then you're currently experiencing about 1 G of force.
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If you accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.4 seconds in a Bugatti Veyron, you'd experience 1.55 Gs.
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If you were on a space shuttle during launch you'd experience 3Gs.
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Driving a Formula One car around a sharp lateral turn would give you a taste of 6.5 Gs.
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And even the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 during reentry with Earth's atmosphere only experienced a force of 7.19 Gs.
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So here's what would happen to you
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experiencing 10 Gs for 60 seconds flying through the inversions on this death coaster.
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You would gradually begin experiencing worsening cases of cerebral hypoxia.
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Meaning that your blood would rush to the lower parts of your body, and so your brain wouldn't be getting enough oxygen to survive.
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The first thing that you would notice is your vision graying out, which would then gradually turn into tunnel vision.
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From there, you would begin experiencing a blackout and,
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ultimately you would eventually lose consciousness and die.
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While it sounds extremely morbid, Julijonas Urbonas designed the Euthanasia Coaster for
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exactly what its name implies.
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Euthanasia, while undoubtedly a madman, he designed the coaster with the intent to give people with horrifically painful diseases or incurable conditions
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the ability to end their lives with a painless and euphoric experience.
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Some exceptionally robust people may even be able to survive the entire experience,
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which would undoubtedly leave a lasting memory.
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But either way, this is one ride that you'll probably never be able to experience.
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The Euthanasia Coaster has always just been an art concept and a testament to the lengths of human imagination,
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where it should probably remain.
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